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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Combining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good for You, Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect argues that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman Staff Pick Klosterman understands your life. Intimately. Through this seemingly meandering and always hilarious critique of modern pop culture, he exposes how unlikely cultural minutiae make our society tick and dictate how we live our lives.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone Publisher Comments Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible by Jorge Cervantes Publisher Comments Featuring information by more than 300 contributors--a veritable "whos who" of cannabis cultivation--this is the most complete book on the subject available. New greenhouse and outdoor growing chapters make the book one that both indoor and outdoor... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg Publisher Comments Replacing myths with research, Goldberg shows that the original fascists were really on the Left and that liberals, from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton, have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitlers National... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick Publisher Comments It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Staff Pick Unfamiliar Fishes is a lively examination of America's influence in the Hawaiian Islands, from the early-19th-century conversion efforts of Christian missionaries to the coup led by their grandchildren. Vowell keeps the story moving with rich... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom by Jedediah Purdy Publisher Comments From the author of For Common Things: a provocative look at the meaning of American freedom. Freedom is at the heart of the American identity, shaping both personal lives and political values. The ideal of authoring one’s own life has inspired the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Ashes to ashes :America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes -- mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product -- with such sweep and enlivening detail. Here for the first time, in a story full of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Hardcover
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